Word: splits
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...President has told interviewers that he sees no inconsistency between these two statements. Yeah. Sure. But the conventional view, not only from foes but also from White House aides, is that they typify a split of Clinton's term into distinct--but dissonant--halves. Stage One, an activist, anything-is-possible phase lasted from Inauguration to November 1994. In the public mind it was marked by fumbling, waffling, minor scandals, disastrous appointments and above all the grandiose health-care plan that was to be Clinton's monument but that died ignominiously in congressional committees. The voters spoke, sweeping Democrats...
...abortion rights. "We're not afraid of debate," said party chairman Christopher Dodd. One of Clinton's most vocal critics on the welfare issue, Jesse Jackson, said the convention should highlight the unity, not the discord, in the party. "In 1968, when the issue was warfare, the big tent split and we lost," Jackson said. "Now, the issue is welfare, the big tent must not split." Vice President Al Gore already began the effort to ease the fears of liberals about the bill, saying that if Clinton is re-elected, "we will have an opportunity to fix" provisions, such...
...seismic readings indicative of a test. Wary of espionage, China wanted to require a two-thirds vote of a 51-nation commission to authorize an inspection, while the United States pushed for a simple majority. In a week and a half of secret negotiations, the two nations agreed to split the difference to require 30 votes, or about 59 percent of the commission...
...seismic readings indicative of a test. Wary of espionage, China wanted to require a two-thirds vote of a 51-nation commission to authorize an inspection, while the United States pushed for a simple majority. In a week and a half of secret negotiations, the two nations agreed to split the difference to require 30 votes, or about 59 percent of the commission...
...life emerge spontaneously on earth, or did it come from outer space? The scientific community is sharply split on the question, and the evidence from Mars not only heats up the debate but also adds a tantalizing third possibility: life-forms may have arisen on Mars first and then hitched a ride on a meteorite to Earth--or vice versa. As Stanford University chemist Richard Zare puts it, "Who is to say that we are not all Martians...